The world is strictly divided into four classes of people.
1. There are those who may be killed and enslaved without punishment. Those are the black Africans. Nobody cares about them in the UN.
2. There are those who may not be touched, even if they wage war, like the Arabs.
3. Then there are those who may do whatever they want, and they include the Arabs.
4. And finally there are the Jews, who are guilty of every crime possible and have to remain under constant supervision.
Those are the four points of the United Nations' "International Law", that's how it works.
Let me give you an example, or rather two.
For several years the Arabs have kept a Jewish hostage in Gaza, someone to torture. And the Jews are now allowed to fight to get him back.
But the hostage is a Jew and the people of Gaza are better, hence nothing can be done under International Law, except giving lots of money to the terrorists.
But if the criminals are Africans, like Somalis in the case below, an entirely different reaction is appropriate and legal:
In 1995, for example, the water supply for Mogadishu, the capital, was shut off by the United Nations humanitarian agencies until a hostage who worked for another aid organization was released. On the first day of the shutoff, the women who collected water from public distribution points yelled at the kidnappers; on the second day they stoned them; on the third day they shot at them; on the fourth day, the hostage was released.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/opinion/19long-1.html?_r=3&ref=opinion
The idea of shutting off Gaza's water supply, which is entirely possible since Israel supplies Gaza with EVERYTHING (and the people of Gaza do not pay for any of it), never entered my mind.
I realise that the UN's methods work. But at some point there has to be a limit. At some point.
P.S.: Isn't it odd that the so-called "anti-imperialists" in the west do not accept a single inch in the middle east not being under Arab rule? If the same demand were to be made in the English-speaking world with regards to British rule, Ireland would go nuts. My beef with Irish nationalists is that they are not willing to allow for other peoples what they demand for themselves.